“Osteomalacia is not new to us, and most people think of it as a disease and seek treatment everywhere. In fact, this understanding is incorrect, “osteophytes” is only a physiological phenomenon in the aging process. Everyone experiences a process of growth, development, maturity and aging, and aging has four characteristics: universality, endogeneity, progressiveness and degeneration. In the process of aging, various functions and structures in the organism undergo degenerative changes, and the balance of the body is increasingly destroyed, leading to a reduction in reserve power, adaptability, resistance to decline. Generally speaking, the aging of human beings starts extremely slowly after the age of 30, and after the age of 40, the feeling of aging gradually appears with the growth of age, and is accompanied by many physiological and psychological changes. For the bones, in the aging process, the bone is from weight gain to reduce, which is characterized by the gradual absorption of the inner surface of the bone, and outside of the new bone generation is slow, which is what we usually call “osteophytes”; osteophytes in the tendons, ligaments (traditional Chinese medicine, called “tendon”), the attachment of the tendon, ligament (Chinese medicine, called “tendon”), the bone, the bone, the bone, the bone, the bone, the bone, the bone. “) attachment points and heavy load, activities of the neck, waist and knee joints and other parts of the most likely to produce. At present, many people with neck, waist and knee pain will be the cause of the pain attributed to “osteophytes” is not correct, our experts from years of clinical practice observed that the vast majority of patients with neck, waist and knee pain, although varying degrees of osteophytes, but after massage, acupuncture, medication and other treatments for the basic elimination of pain and the “osteophytes” are the most common cause of pain. The phenomenon of “osteophytes” has not been significantly improved, which is a good indication that osteophytes are not the real cause of neck, waist and knee pain. Of course, some osteophytes have special parts, may be on the surrounding soft tissues, nerves, blood vessels and other compression and stimulation and the corresponding symptoms, which can not be ignored and need treatment. “Osteomalacia is a physiological phenomenon in the aging process of human beings. Generally speaking, osteophytes do not need to be treated, but only those osteophytes that compress blood vessels and nerves and cause clinical symptoms need to be treated. Cervical spondylolisthesis compression of nerve roots manifested as radiculopathy, compression of the vertebral artery manifested as vertebral artery-type cervical spondylosis, compression of sympathetic nerves manifested as sympathetic cervical spondylosis, lumbar vertebral osteomalacia compression of lumbar nerves lumbar pain or radiating pain in the lower extremities manifested as lumbar spondylolisthesis arthritis. Osteomalacia can not be prevented, so there is no need to deliberately prevent. People should strengthen outdoor exercise, work and rest, avoid excessive physical labor; dietary attention to strengthen the calcium supplement, drink more milk, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. Osteomalacia treatment is mainly symptomatic treatment, to massage, acupuncture, physiotherapy, and Chinese and Western medicine as the main means of treatment, the principle of Chinese medicine is to tonify the liver and kidney, dredge the meridians and channels, qi pain, that is, through the drugs and meridian point stimulation to achieve qi and blood smooth to get the balance of yin and yang; Western medicine is mainly anti-inflammatory principle of analgesia, loosening of the soft tissues adhesions, restoring the normal anatomical position of the bone and joints, alleviate the compression of the nerves and blood vessels. The principle of western medicine is to reduce inflammation and pain, loosen the soft tissue adhesion, restore the normal anatomical position of bone and joint, and relieve the pressure of nerve and blood vessels. Acupuncture and Knife treatment is mainly aimed at the dysfunction of the dynamic balance of soft tissues caused by osteophytes, through the loosening of adhesions in specific areas, so that the human body to establish a new balance, so as to achieve the alleviation of pain and discomfort caused by osteophytes, eliminating the formation of bone spurs, so that spurs do not continue to grow. Some drug advertisements claiming that you can “turn” bone spurs is pure nonsense, do not know the composition of bone spurs and bone composition is the same, melt away the bone spurs will also melt away the bone, people can not stand and walk without bone it?